Cyclopogon furculus (Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014

SUBGENUS Stigmatosema

TYPE Drawing of Stigmatosema furcula by © Szlach and Lindleyana 10: 7 1995

Common Name The Forked Rostellum Cyclopogon

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Peru without locality as a delicate terrestrial with elliptic to oval, widest at or below the middle, subacute, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect peduncle, provided with narrowly lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, glabrous, remote sheathing bracts, in the lower part sparsely, below and within the rachis densely glandular, rachis 3.6" [9 cm] long, secund, rather lax, to 20 flowered inflorescence with Lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, tubular, subsessile flowers with a saccate base.

" Similar to C inaequalateris but C furculus has a forked rostellum, the hypochile is more or less rectangular with tiny thickenings on the small basal lobules, the isthmus is canaliculate, the huypochile is reniform to cordate and the petals have a fleshy ridge on the midnerve." Szlach 1995

Synonyms *Stigmatosema furcula Szlach. 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Lindleyana 10: 7 Szlach 1995 as Stigmatosema furcula;

*Orchid Rev. 122(1306, Suppl.): 37 J M H Shaw 2014

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